| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 138 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-134) and indexes. |
| Contents |
From many parts, a whole -- In honor of Letty Mandeville Russell -- Following the clues -- Why hospitality? -- On being a misfit : embracing hospitality -- In but still out -- Making sense of myself -- Living on the margins -- Becoming a feminist -- The gift of not fitting -- Church inside out -- Church in the round -- One call, many ministries -- Ministry of hospitality -- Hospitality -- Difference -- The new hospitality -- Postcolonial interpretation -- Postcolonial subjects -- Postcolonial theological perspectives -- Doctrine of election in postcolonial interpretation -- When election is a problem -- The ambiguity of chosenness -- Feminism and hospitality in postcolonial interpretation -- A feminist hermeneutic of hospitality -- Postcolonial subjects practicing hospitality -- Riotous difference as God's gift to the church -- Biblical views of difference -- Babel's gift of difference -- Pentecost's gift of understanding -- A different kind of unity -- Unity-in-tension -- Unity in hospitality -- Community of Christ -- The source of unity -- Liberating difference -- Reframing a theology of hospitality -- Framing and reframing -- Making a change -- Steps to reframing -- God's hospitality : reframing safety in biblical tradition -- The meaning of safe space -- Searching the scriptures for safe space -- Reframing a text : Ruth's story -- Attending to context -- Developing a spirituality of listening -- Just hospitality -- Unequally yoked -- Justice in "just" hospitality -- Amos's message -- Justice as hospitality in worship -- Hospitality in just hospitality -- Welcome as a metaphor for action -- Transforming God's welcome -- Recognizing just hospitality -- Limits -- Essential characteristics. |
| Subject |
Hospitality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Hospitality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
(OCoLC)fst00961122
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| Added Author |
Clarkson, J. Shannon (Jeanette Shannon), 1944-
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Ott, Kate M.
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| ISBN |
9780664233150 (alk. paper) |
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0664233155 (alk. paper) |
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